Please point out the projects it contributed to? OpenOffice is dead and shipped off to apache, MySQL is stagnating, Oracle linux is nothing but a Redhat clone with no changes but copyright names change. Oracle is not a friend to open source. Never been either.
Actually, you can. Look up shops selling for bitcoins. Government isn't forcing people to take bitcoins, the qualities of bitcoins (security, anonymity, lack of centralized control) is what forces people to use them.
Nobody messed up windows 8 interface. But those, who though it would be a good idea to slap metro UI on desktop OS should be forced to use windows 8 and touchscreens (take away their mice for good) until they beg for mercy.
Paper mail is not generally encrypted. Heck, when I'm talking to someone in my house I don't use assymetric crypto. It doesn't mean you are free to put bugs in my house. Intercepting SMS-es clearly requires intent and a number of manipulations. It's not like you can pick it up on a ham radio.
They didn't say the customers were wrong. They just told them they weren't their customers. I'm pretty sure other console manufacturers will be glad to welcome disgruntled people with desire to spend some money.
Well, we obviously see that windows 8 is an exceptional success. Especially the RT version on Surface. Not as successful as Vista, though, but still. And all the uber-popular WindowsPhones that take the world by storm. Not to mention the hottest thing since the generic mp3 player: zune.
Gabe will applaud this move and remind people that there is offline mode for quite a fair share of Steam games and will be glad to sell a console that will double as a generic PC with linux under hood. Also trying to inconvenience the users is not the best selling strategy. Given choice, I'd rather get a console that does not require me to be always online (hint: what do you do when the internet is out?) Also, vacuum analogy is pretty shitty. I wouldn't buy a vacuum that only functions when internet is on. Single-player games don't need internet connectivity all the time - so artificial inconvenience for customers will make pirated copies all the more popular. Choosing between a free copy that doesn't require internet connection to play and a rather expencive one, that doesn't is a no-brainer.
FYI backup is a copy. You can't allow copying for legit reasons and disallow for non-legit. Like you can't make air breathable for law-abiding citizens and non-breathable for criminals. Laws of natural world don't care for lobbying.
Last I checked torrent sites were not the ones wanting the DRM plugins. Because illegal download sites provide DRM-free content. So those, who download illegaly don't give a rat about those plugins. Those ripping the content will still find a way to rip it quickly and efficiently (name one DRM that didn't fail?) and nothing will change for that crowd. It's the legit users that want to do things legally that will get shafted.
I have no problem paying for a film. For a reliable experience they cat stream it or use HTML5-s "video" tag. And as a consumer I _want_ an unreliable and bad experience for anything with DRM, so that DRM-free content is in better position. So that those, that don't notice how badly they are being screwed with DRM in the long term would at least see a difference in experience they are getting.
If you want an anal probe, for god's sake, get one. Just stop trying to push one up everyone's hole and make it a standard. Community should not waste it's resources doing corporation's dirty job for them. They want DRM ? Let them come up with solutions. I will not pay for it. As I'm not paying for DRMed content. Ever. I would rather donate to anyone removing DRM.
You, sir, are so misguided I don't know where to start. Computer is not "a free ticket to whatever you want off the internet", this is where you are right. The only place where you are right.
Computer is a machine. In my possession, the one that I bought for my purposes. And I want to be in control of it. Because it is a machine, a tool that I use to achieve certain goals. Computer is a tool to work with information, this is the only thing it's good at. I don't want anybody telling me what I can and can't do with it or crippling it's functionality. DRM is crippling my computer to prevent me from exercising my rights as a consumer to backup a copy in case of a computer malfunction or watch on any other device that I own. It is designed to make me pay several times for the same thing.
Binary code is not DRM in any of it's form. It doesn't prevent me from copying it, disassemble it or running it after the company, that produced the binary is bankrupt and erased from history.
And yes, I dislike DRM, I don't use it, and as hell don't want it as a standart in a browser. If corporations want to cripple my browser and PC and make it work for their ends, not mine - they can struggle with it themselves, frustrating users more. Community has no stakes in it and should not waste it's resources trying to sugar-coat the poisonous pill that they are trying to make us swallow.
BBC can shove it. It's legal in most of the Europe to bypass DRM on anything aquired legally as it is treated as a software glitch and error preventing you from using legally obtained material.
I am happy to pay a monthly fee. Of a one-time fee. Or anything inbetween, as long as it's fair. Current prices on Steam are a good example of maximizing the profits by playing with the price. What I don't want - is to pay for a handycapped version of a movie. That I can't fast-forward, play the way I see fit or watch on my trip to Russia without all this DVD region bull. Well, I can't get this in stores. Some stuff I can't get anywhere but the pirates. Sorry guys, but pirates provide a better service for free. You provide a shoddy service at best and demand a lot of cash, that you later put into prosecuting your customers. The choice is quite simple.
DRM does not make money. It creates an illusion of "protection". We should be done with this scam and force content providers to invest into the quality instead of DRM.
Because DRM shall be cracked. Deal with it. So it will not stop the pirates. But it will annoy the consumers. I don't want to help corporations come up with better ways of infridging on my rights to backup, store or copy (for fair use ends) the information, that I legally obtained. I don't want crappy spyware being a standart and implemented in every browser. What I do want, though, is to be able to view/play/listen to the art that I legally obtained, give it to my children and not depend on some vendor, that I bought it from to not go out of business rendering my collection of art useless and nothing but a bunch of random bytes, as I would be unable to crack the DRM legally in US. Wallmart music store buyers learned the lesson. Others will soon enough.
They'll just say, that everything's fine the way it is and noone need to actually be in control of the device they're using. In most cases in seems that iDevices are smarter than their owners anyway, so it just might be better for them if the device is in charge.
Nothing to be confused about piracy is good for sales, DRM is bad for sales. As simple as that. Some people have learned it with Walmart music store, many will soon learn it. SimCity fiasco is another example. Users are slowly starting to realize, that DRMd stuff is as good as damaged goods - a gamble in which you are much more likely to lose. Also, this anti-circumvention bull does not fly in most countries with the exception of USA. Here in Europe I can do whatever it takes to make my legally obtained device operational in the way I please. Be it soldering, hacking firmware, removing sim-lock or just stripping DRM from anything I purchased. I just hope that in a decade or so we will be able to look back at this time and smirk at the "digital dark age" where pirate-hunting lawyers roam the free digital seas and tried to prevent people from collecting, sharing and copying information. RIAA is nothing but a new-age Luddite, trying to throw a shoe into the cogs of progress, hoping to make a quick buck doing it. We all remember how that ended.
If only anybody made that stack of rawhide software, frameworks and standarts into usable software... I mean I can set up a xmpp client with OTR or GPG encryption, haven't tried doing that with SIP, but take Skype users. For most of them comprehencing what needs to be done is akin to building a fusion reactor out of household items... As for the corporations: all of them gladly uses XMPP standart for their own ends, but only Google bothered to abandon the walled garden ideology and enabled XMPP federation on their servers. Don't see Facebook or MS playing ball on that field. Facebook is even trying to "embrace, extend, extinguish" the email system, so there is very little hope in them enabling XMPP federation.
Ofcource if I worked for FSB and was unable to tap into Skype, I'd start spreading FUD about how well I can tap into it. To make them more over to less secure means of communication. Anyway, I hope this will lead to boost in developing a solution with good crypto. Like jingle or SIP with encyption and it's wide adoption. Not that it's happening anytime soon, but a man can dream...
This totally makes sense. Wish they would also prohibit disabling single player games for violating terms of use. If I don't use a device in accordance with it's manual, a company is in their right to refuse repairing it refuse connecting it to their network. But taking away all games is just ridiculous. Heck, taking an analogy to the world of physical things it's as if company reps came to my home and took, without any compensation, all of the devices made by their company just because I spilled water on my laptop's keyboard.
You, sir, are as misinformed, as it gets. UEFI Secure Boot means that bootloader has to be signed. Now microsoft is requiring an option for secure boot to be disabled in order for the hardware get a shiny new "Windows compatible" sticker, Canonical, in addition to that requires an option for users to be able to upload their own keys, although Canonical has less leverage on hardware manufacturers, but this is still better then you whining on slashdot without even reading about the problem in the first place. And, while Fedora will have a bootloader signed by Microsoft, Ubuntu will pack a number of options: on systems without or a disabled Secure Boot it will install Grub2, same story in case of secure boot with your own keys (you will have to sign the GRUB2 yourself, though). On systems with enabled secure boot with only Microsoft key working — it will install a small signed bootloader.
They will be using new bootloader only on the systems, that will not allow disabling secure boot (if these will come into existance). On all others they will be using good old GRUB2 (systems that will allow disabling secure boot or uploading your own keys). But why bother reading the article, when you can express your opinion about it, right?
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Please point out the projects it contributed to?
OpenOffice is dead and shipped off to apache, MySQL is stagnating, Oracle linux is nothing but a Redhat clone with no changes but copyright names change. Oracle is not a friend to open source. Never been either.
Actually, you can.
Look up shops selling for bitcoins.
Government isn't forcing people to take bitcoins, the qualities of bitcoins (security, anonymity, lack of centralized control) is what forces people to use them.
Nobody messed up windows 8 interface. But those, who though it would be a good idea to slap metro UI on desktop OS should be forced to use windows 8 and touchscreens (take away their mice for good) until they beg for mercy.
Paper mail is not generally encrypted. Heck, when I'm talking to someone in my house I don't use assymetric crypto. It doesn't mean you are free to put bugs in my house. Intercepting SMS-es clearly requires intent and a number of manipulations. It's not like you can pick it up on a ham radio.
They didn't say the customers were wrong. They just told them they weren't their customers. I'm pretty sure other console manufacturers will be glad to welcome disgruntled people with desire to spend some money.
Except they won't deliver a vacuum. They will deliver an electric vibrating broom.
Well, we obviously see that windows 8 is an exceptional success. Especially the RT version on Surface. Not as successful as Vista, though, but still. And all the uber-popular WindowsPhones that take the world by storm. Not to mention the hottest thing since the generic mp3 player: zune.
Gabe will applaud this move and remind people that there is offline mode for quite a fair share of Steam games and will be glad to sell a console that will double as a generic PC with linux under hood.
Also trying to inconvenience the users is not the best selling strategy. Given choice, I'd rather get a console that does not require me to be always online (hint: what do you do when the internet is out?)
Also, vacuum analogy is pretty shitty. I wouldn't buy a vacuum that only functions when internet is on. Single-player games don't need internet connectivity all the time - so artificial inconvenience for customers will make pirated copies all the more popular. Choosing between a free copy that doesn't require internet connection to play and a rather expencive one, that doesn't is a no-brainer.
FYI backup is a copy. You can't allow copying for legit reasons and disallow for non-legit. Like you can't make air breathable for law-abiding citizens and non-breathable for criminals. Laws of natural world don't care for lobbying.
Last I checked torrent sites were not the ones wanting the DRM plugins. Because illegal download sites provide DRM-free content. So those, who download illegaly don't give a rat about those plugins. Those ripping the content will still find a way to rip it quickly and efficiently (name one DRM that didn't fail?) and nothing will change for that crowd.
It's the legit users that want to do things legally that will get shafted.
I have no problem paying for a film. For a reliable experience they cat stream it or use HTML5-s "video" tag. And as a consumer I _want_ an unreliable and bad experience for anything with DRM, so that DRM-free content is in better position. So that those, that don't notice how badly they are being screwed with DRM in the long term would at least see a difference in experience they are getting.
If you want an anal probe, for god's sake, get one. Just stop trying to push one up everyone's hole and make it a standard. Community should not waste it's resources doing corporation's dirty job for them. They want DRM ? Let them come up with solutions. I will not pay for it. As I'm not paying for DRMed content. Ever. I would rather donate to anyone removing DRM.
You, sir, are so misguided I don't know where to start.
Computer is not "a free ticket to whatever you want off the internet", this is where you are right. The only place where you are right.
Computer is a machine. In my possession, the one that I bought for my purposes. And I want to be in control of it. Because it is a machine, a tool that I use to achieve certain goals. Computer is a tool to work with information, this is the only thing it's good at. I don't want anybody telling me what I can and can't do with it or crippling it's functionality. DRM is crippling my computer to prevent me from exercising my rights as a consumer to backup a copy in case of a computer malfunction or watch on any other device that I own. It is designed to make me pay several times for the same thing.
Binary code is not DRM in any of it's form. It doesn't prevent me from copying it, disassemble it or running it after the company, that produced the binary is bankrupt and erased from history.
And yes, I dislike DRM, I don't use it, and as hell don't want it as a standart in a browser. If corporations want to cripple my browser and PC and make it work for their ends, not mine - they can struggle with it themselves, frustrating users more. Community has no stakes in it and should not waste it's resources trying to sugar-coat the poisonous pill that they are trying to make us swallow.
BBC can shove it. It's legal in most of the Europe to bypass DRM on anything aquired legally as it is treated as a software glitch and error preventing you from using legally obtained material.
I am happy to pay a monthly fee. Of a one-time fee. Or anything inbetween, as long as it's fair. Current prices on Steam are a good example of maximizing the profits by playing with the price. What I don't want - is to pay for a handycapped version of a movie. That I can't fast-forward, play the way I see fit or watch on my trip to Russia without all this DVD region bull.
Well, I can't get this in stores. Some stuff I can't get anywhere but the pirates.
Sorry guys, but pirates provide a better service for free. You provide a shoddy service at best and demand a lot of cash, that you later put into prosecuting your customers.
The choice is quite simple.
DRM does not make money. It creates an illusion of "protection". We should be done with this scam and force content providers to invest into the quality instead of DRM.
Because DRM shall be cracked. Deal with it. So it will not stop the pirates. But it will annoy the consumers. I don't want to help corporations come up with better ways of infridging on my rights to backup, store or copy (for fair use ends) the information, that I legally obtained. I don't want crappy spyware being a standart and implemented in every browser. What I do want, though, is to be able to view/play/listen to the art that I legally obtained, give it to my children and not depend on some vendor, that I bought it from to not go out of business rendering my collection of art useless and nothing but a bunch of random bytes, as I would be unable to crack the DRM legally in US.
Wallmart music store buyers learned the lesson. Others will soon enough.
They'll just say, that everything's fine the way it is and noone need to actually be in control of the device they're using. In most cases in seems that iDevices are smarter than their owners anyway, so it just might be better for them if the device is in charge.
Nothing to be confused about piracy is good for sales, DRM is bad for sales. As simple as that.
Some people have learned it with Walmart music store, many will soon learn it. SimCity fiasco is another example. Users are slowly starting to realize, that DRMd stuff is as good as damaged goods - a gamble in which you are much more likely to lose.
Also, this anti-circumvention bull does not fly in most countries with the exception of USA. Here in Europe I can do whatever it takes to make my legally obtained device operational in the way I please. Be it soldering, hacking firmware, removing sim-lock or just stripping DRM from anything I purchased.
I just hope that in a decade or so we will be able to look back at this time and smirk at the "digital dark age" where pirate-hunting lawyers roam the free digital seas and tried to prevent people from collecting, sharing and copying information. RIAA is nothing but a new-age Luddite, trying to throw a shoe into the cogs of progress, hoping to make a quick buck doing it. We all remember how that ended.
If only anybody made that stack of rawhide software, frameworks and standarts into usable software...
I mean I can set up a xmpp client with OTR or GPG encryption, haven't tried doing that with SIP, but take Skype users. For most of them comprehencing what needs to be done is akin to building a fusion reactor out of household items...
As for the corporations: all of them gladly uses XMPP standart for their own ends, but only Google bothered to abandon the walled garden ideology and enabled XMPP federation on their servers. Don't see Facebook or MS playing ball on that field. Facebook is even trying to "embrace, extend, extinguish" the email system, so there is very little hope in them enabling XMPP federation.
Ofcource if I worked for FSB and was unable to tap into Skype, I'd start spreading FUD about how well I can tap into it. To make them more over to less secure means of communication.
Anyway, I hope this will lead to boost in developing a solution with good crypto. Like jingle or SIP with encyption and it's wide adoption. Not that it's happening anytime soon, but a man can dream...
This totally makes sense. Wish they would also prohibit disabling single player games for violating terms of use. If I don't use a device in accordance with it's manual, a company is in their right to refuse repairing it refuse connecting it to their network. But taking away all games is just ridiculous. Heck, taking an analogy to the world of physical things it's as if company reps came to my home and took, without any compensation, all of the devices made by their company just because I spilled water on my laptop's keyboard.
You, sir, are as misinformed, as it gets. UEFI Secure Boot means that bootloader has to be signed. Now microsoft is requiring an option for secure boot to be disabled in order for the hardware get a shiny new "Windows compatible" sticker, Canonical, in addition to that requires an option for users to be able to upload their own keys, although Canonical has less leverage on hardware manufacturers, but this is still better then you whining on slashdot without even reading about the problem in the first place.
And, while Fedora will have a bootloader signed by Microsoft, Ubuntu will pack a number of options: on systems without or a disabled Secure Boot it will install Grub2, same story in case of secure boot with your own keys (you will have to sign the GRUB2 yourself, though). On systems with enabled secure boot with only Microsoft key working — it will install a small signed bootloader.
They will be using new bootloader only on the systems, that will not allow disabling secure boot (if these will come into existance). On all others they will be using good old GRUB2 (systems that will allow disabling secure boot or uploading your own keys). But why bother reading the article, when you can express your opinion about it, right?